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...Charles William Eliot--The nation's most distinguished educator and foremost private citizen" were the words of President Lemuel Herbert Murlin or Boston University in conferring an honary degree of Doctor of Laws on President Eliot at the 50th anniversary ceremony of Boston University yesterday in Symphony Hall...
...Marine Biological Labratory at Woods Hole, Mass., celebrated the 50th anniversary of its foundation by Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz, famed Swiss-American naturalist (1807-1873), who became Professor of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The first laboratory was on Penikese Island in Buzzards Bay, which was given for the purpose by the philanthropist, John Anderson, with an endowment of $50,000. Later it re- moved to the village of Woods Hole on the mainland. This was the first biological institution established on the edge of the sea for studying marine flora and fauna. But many have followed its lead, notably that...
...Fear God and Keep Your Powder Dry." The 416 members of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis were presented with Bibles last week by the American Seaman's Friend Society. This is the 50th presentation of the kind which the society has made to the future Admirals. Possibly Farragut got his " Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead ! " from this source...
Music weeks and festivals have raised loud ensembles all over the country during the closing season days. The most notable undoubtedly is the Cincinnati Music Festival. This function is wrapped with the triple dignities of age, bigness and merit. Cincinnati celebrates its Golden Anniversary Festival, the 50th yearly invocation of tuneful sound. The first festival was directed by Theodore Thomas in 1873. All of these events have been large and ceremonious...
...50th anniversary of the Colonne Concerts is being celebrated in Paris. The founding of these concerts by Edouard Colonne marked a new epoch in musical appreciation in France. To the general French public music had never meant anything more than opera. Symphonic music was unknown to them. In the first place they were afraid of it. Colonne, then relatively unknown even in musical circles, educated the general public of Paris not only to an appreciation of the work of the old masters, but he also introduced to them the work of the young Frenchmen of their own time. The orchestra...